Fortunately, Jamie had more luck in the town where he works. It always makes me laugh that we use the 'Not For Passover' matzoh for Passover.Maybe I should explain. We are not Jewish. We are not even Messianic Christians. We do not believe we are still under the Law which included the necessity of celebrating all the Biblical Feasts. No, we celebrate Passover not because we must, rather because we can.
We always celebrate it on Maunday Thursday too, no matter where in the calendar Passover falls that year. Sometimes it's after Easter. It wouldn't have the full significance to us to celebrate it at any time other than the night of the Last Supper, because we celebrate it in order to better understand the Last Supper and the events leading up to Easter Day.
Each year we do, and this is the 6th consecutive year in which we have, we discover more about Jesus. The Passover story is a wonderful foreshadowing of the sacrifice of Jesus and we've been blessed every year that we've participated as a family. If you've never been to a Christian Seder, do think about it for your family.
Some years, we've been to churches which celebrate it. Some years, we've had friends over and love that. This year, we've all been feeling miserable with colds (yes, more!) and didn't want to spread that joy, so we just did our own family Seder.{g}
I love getting out all my best stuff! I even risk the combination of my best white tablecloth and red wine! {gasp!}
For the main meal, we had chicken in cider and Jamie had some of his White Christmas Nutmeat which we saved in the freezer just for last night. It keeps very well!
The desserts were: little pecan pies, which we all love and two which things which are very popular with Ashkenazi Jews in Britain: cinnamon balls and coconut pyramids, said to remind people of the slavery they left behind in Egypt! I did try to make pyramids, but they ended up more rounded than that! Tasty though!
We read that it's traditional to sing psalms afterwards, so we always sing 3 Christian worship songs based on the psalms.
It was hard work getting ready, and I didn't even do the cleaning the house part of the preparations! No time for that!{g} But I'm always thankful that I made the effort. These family traditions have been important to the kids in the story of the development of their faith. Who knows? Maybe one year we will be blessed with grandchildren coming back to the Passover table with Grace and Jack. That would be exciting.
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What's in the print out book you have and where did you get it from/how did you make it? I am assuming it's all the traditional readings etc that are said at a passover.
Very cool, Dorothy! I must get the energy to do this next year. I think I've been terminally tired since Carys was born. :(
I think the U.S. Catholic churches always do things just a bit differently than the rest of the world(wacky Americans, LOL)...we actually celebrate Passover as well. One of the local parishes always has a Passover dinner. After all, Jesus was our Passover lamb.
That table is beautiful!
I thought of you and Jen and Stephanie a lot this week. It was thorugh your encouragements that I finally pulled a celebration of Passover together last year. I agree with your thoughts that I learn so much about Jesus each year through celebrating Passover.....and yesterday I learned something brand new about Maundy Thursday through our Lent celebrations. I should remember to share that.
I love your pretty table...and your authentic Jewish treats. We went to friends house this year - mixed feelings about that really....it was fun and yet....we missed the intimacy of our family seder....
What a lovely tradition you have established Dorothy. I'm sure one day you will be blessed with grandchildren coming back to your table to celebrate Passover.
Your table looks lovely and definitely worth using your best white tablecloth for!
Alexandra,
That's interesting about the US Catholic churches celebrating Passover. The first Seder we went to was in the town's RC church, put on afor all the town's churches. It was a wonderful event, drawing all the Christians together to understand Jesus' Jewish context better.
Esther, I printed the Haggadah out from the Heart of Wisdom site a few years ago. It is still there! I just checked.
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I didn't realize you'd been doing this for so long. We participated in our first Seder with our co-op last fall as we studied that time period. I keep thinking I should post those pictures now since it would be fitting for the blog during this season even though our Seder was actually months ago.
Beautiful Table! We celebrated our first Passover Seder last year because our oldest son begged us to. He heard about it in a book and wanted to do it! So we thought 'Why not?' We enjoyed it so much Dh decided we would make it an annual event.
We were away last week so we are being a little unconventional and celebrating it on the last night instead of the first - so tomorrow. Last year I couldn't find Matzos either but we got some this year in our big ASDA. I'm even going to try the Matzo pancakes this year.
And when we got to the states at Christmas my Mom had a surprise for us. She had found us a lovely plastic (read-'kid friendly'!) seder plate so we get to use that this year! I can't wait. Although it will be challenging with two new little ones in the house! LOL!
You do set a beautiful table. It's quite an inspiration when I see your table photos.
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